Magna Carta now on display

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. Â? A copy of the Magna Carta is the centerpiece of a new exhibition at the Ronald Rea-gan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley.

The exhibition began Jan. 22 and will run through June 20 and will include scenes from life in England in 1215, the year the Magna Carta was recorded.

The document, considered important because it guaranteed basic freedoms and rights, is owned by the Lin-coln Cathedral in Lincolnshire, England.

According to the cathedral's Web site, the bishops of Lincoln were among the magnates of medieval England and when the Magna Carta was drawn up in 1215, one of the witnesses was Hugh of Wells, Bishop of Lincoln, who returned with his copy to the city. Today Lincoln's copy of the document is only one of four originals from 1215 that still exist.